Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Lights, tumult and time

Lights with character.

"For a pure essence of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence". Philip Roth touches an unhappy truth there, I fear.

Someone, I can' t remember who, told me once in my working days, that he had a folder in his desk drawer labelled GHT. Here he filed those tricky things to which he couldn't find an answer and items to be read "in due course". What did GHT stand for? The gentle hand of time. Every now and then I think of this when I throw out a pile of neglected papers which seem to have lost their relevance. Filtered as it were by the gentle hand.

About Me

Compasses

Following their Handbook for Explorers collaboration on the Compasses site (link below), Lucy Kempton and I are working together on a new venture, Questions. This is a series of poems submitted by each of us alternately, and prompted in the case of each poem by the previous poem and a new question. It is a process of adventure and discovery. Join us for the ride.http://www.compasses-lucyandjoe.blogspot.com/